The night circle looked down on the valley, silhouetting the form of a small longneck. Littlefoot gazed up fixing his eyes on a single star "Mother...it's been five years..five years since that day..." Littlefoot closed his eyes as memories came flooding back "I avenged you..I found the Great Valley...I hope I made you proud."

You have my son, I couldn't be more proud of you.

Littlefoot opened his eyes at the sound of his mothers sweet voice, and his eyes widen when the stars came together to form the shape of a longneck "Mother? You came back to me?"

I never left you, Littlefoot, I've been in your heart and I always will be. I've been watching you as you grew, I owe so much to my parents for raising you so well...

"Grandma and Grandpa have been good to me, I don't know where I would be without them...but...I wish you were still here, Mother...I miss having you at my side.."

My precious son, you can not change what happened. I gave up my life for you, and I have not regretted that for a second. Even if I could live my my life over I would gladly do it again. Now, my Littlefoot you should head home, your Grandparents would be worried about you being out so late.

Littlefoot stood up as the shape in the stars faded and stillness filled the air once more, with a heavy sigh he turned and began the trek back to where his Grandparents would be waiting for him.

"Littlefoot?"

Littlefoot looked up startled "Oh, hi Grandpa."

Grandpa drew to a stop "Oh, there you are. Grandma was getting worried, so was I. Are you okay?"

Hanging his head Littlefoot sighed "Yeah..it's just...this time of year..."

Grandpa nodded in understanding, remembering his daughter "I miss her to,Littlefoot. But she is still watching over you, over all of us.

Littlefoot smiled softly remembering the moment he shared with his Mother not long ago "Yeah..she sure is..."

Meanwhile, in an isolated valley, another young longneck gazed up at the night sky, her blue eyes clouded and unseeing. The longneck seemed to be waiting for something, she sighed heavily "I know..." she spoke though no one was there "You have not abandoned us..."

A rustling came from behind the longneck and two others appeared, only a bit older then the girl they had smirks on their faces.

"Talking to yourself again no-eyes?" one spoke as he shoved the girl in the side "I know you can't see but, hate to break this to you. But there is no one else here." he laughed the other quickly joining in.

"No no, she doesn't talk to herself. She talks to 'spirits' remember." the second boy laughed.

"Go away." the girl growled "You may be able to see but you're blind to whats beyond your own noses."

"Shut up, Tara." snapped the first young male "You're useless, only use you have is sharptooth bait. Why don't you just go walk into a sharptooths mouth?"

"How dare you." Tara growled "As for being useless, I'm actually a healer in training, which is more then you do, Danny." she spat his name like poison.

Danny rolled his eyes "Ooh great idea, lets have the girl with health problems she can't fix, try and fix ours. Why would we trust a healer that's blind? How would you know what is wrong with us? How would you know what to give us? Hmmm?" Danny smirked.

"Don't worry, if I ever heal you I'm sure you being cry about exactly what's wrong with you, and besides it was Ava's idea that I got to help her. And isn't Ava your family Niko?" Tara glared at the boy at Danny's side.

Niko scoffed "Yes, Aunt Ava. But she is loony as you are, no wonder she likes you."

"Well, nice to hear my nephew has such good things to say about me." an adult female longneck joined the children "Niko, Danny what are you doing?"

"Reminding me how useless I am." Tara spoke up before the boys could "And something about sharptooth bait."

Ava frowned "Niko, your mother was calling for you, you go too Danny. Tara, I told your parents I'll bring you back later. I need your help finishing up a few things in the healing clearing."

"Oh please, what kind of help could SHE be?" Niko spat in Tara's direction.

"You two, scat." Ava snapped "And stop upsetting my assistant, just think one day you may have to depend on her to save your life, now get out of here."

Danny and Niko glared at Tara once more before turning and sprinting off laughing between themselves.

Tara frowned "I hate them." she tossed her head.

Ava rubbed Tara's head "Don't let them get to you, you know your place who are they to judge."

"How come I have to be blind? It's not fair."

Ava glanced up at the sky "Only the spirits of the Great Beyond know that, they have a plan for all of us. Do not worry my dear, you have a great path in front of you."

Tara turned her head away "Well, they picked one hard path for me. Maya gets it easy and she is my sister, it's not fair."

"The spirits never intended for life to be fair. Now come along, we got work to do." Ava placed her tail around Tara and helped her forward.

Tara got lost in her thoughts as she walked on supported by Ava, Wait...what did she mean I have a great path? I mean..Niko and Danny are right...what use am I?

Yes, Tara really is blind. You'll get to know more of her backstory later as well as the herd she lives in, I would say to put it in our human terms that it is a spiritual/religious group. You might be wondering, who the heck is this Tara and where does she come into play? You'll see.

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